Cutting up some cucumber peels into small pieces and placing and them on top of your hummingbird feeder may help to deter both bees and wasps.

What can you do to keep bees away from hummingbird feeders. Avoid feeders with yellow inserts red. How to keep bees away from hummingbird feeders. Bees can be guided to a bowl filled with one to two parts sugar and one part water mix.

One way is to use a bee brush and remove the bees that have already been attracted to the feeder. In addition, you may be able to purchase bee guards for your existing feeders. After about three or four days,.

Nectar guard tips keep bees, wasps and yellow jackets away from hummingbird feeders, but hummingbirds can still. Place the distracting feeder in full sun, which bees prefer more than. Use a red hummingbird feeder.

Always place a good medium size rock or pebble in the middle. Position a bowl in a place not too far from the hummingbird feeder. This is the most effective deterrent for keeping bees away.

Bee guards are covers that go over the port of your hummingbird feeders. The best way to keep wasps away from your bird feeder is to make sure that there are no openings in the top of the feeder. Bee guards or mesh are placed around the ports on the hummingbird feeder, which allows the birds to get to the food but keeps the bees away.

If the bees take to. Start by locating the decoy feeder near the hummingbird feeder, and gradually move it 5 to 6 feet away. Eliminate nests look for holes in the wood of your deck (carpenter bees) look for wasp nests and spray them using long.